Exploring Our Place in Space -- Issue 40 -- Oct. 3-9, 2009

This week's standards:
Students understand science and technology. (Science: Science and Technology)

Activities:
1. Use newspaper words about space and the planets to make a space collage.

2. Circle newspaper ads for telescopes and other scientific equipment. How many could be used to study space?

3. Interview family members and friends. Ask them what they would like NASA to study. What do they think about life on other planets?

4. Which NASA equipment will study (a) sun storms, (b) the moon, (c) brown dwarfs, and (d) the edge of our solar system?

5. Pretend you are a scientist from another world. Your space telescope has discovered Earth. Write a report telling your people what this new planet is like.

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)